The life and times of a a respectable beard.

Minnesota-based photographer Ben Garvin creates an epic stop-motion video documenting the life and times of his beard. The video is appropriately titled, "Magic Beard" and shows crayons, carrots, cucumbers, combs, and cash emerging from his full beard as if they were living there.

The video was published to YouTube on August 23 and has reached viral status with close to 2 million page views.

Gavin says, "Never let a good beard go to waste." So when it was time to lose the beard, he documented the shaving process too, providing us with a hilarious ending to his beard story.